New Perspectives in Foreign Policy is published by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) to provide a forum for young professionals to write on issues of importance in foreign policy. Though New Perspectives seeks to bring new voices into the dialogue, it...

New Perspectives in Foreign Policy is published by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) to provide a forum for young professionals to debate issues of importance in foreign policy. Though New Perspectives seeks to bring new voices into the dialogue,...

New Perspectives in Foreign Policy is published by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) to provide a forum for young professionals to debate issues of importance in foreign policy. Though New Perspectives seeks to bring new voices into the dialogue, it...

Who would have predicted just two years ago that cash-strapped, inwardly-focused, soul-searching France would embark on a flurry of military operations and bold strategic moves? How France can really afford to remain a global power while imposing some of the heaviest budget...

The future of the UK as a nuclear-weapon state could rest in the hands of Scottish voters in their September 2014 referendum on independence. Would an independent Scotland carry out its threat to evict the Trident force currently based there, and would London have any...

There is not great cause for disarmament optimism, in part because nuclear arsenals do not connect in a systemic way, which might allow them to be drawn down in a coordinated effort. The challenge is not to re-assert an old norm of disarmament, but to prevent the erosion of...

The choices that four rising democracies—Brazil, India, Indonesia, and Turkey—make will help determine the trajectory of the interlocking web of norms, institutions, rules, and relationships known as the global order.

Understanding the complex and often contradictory interactions among Turkey, Russia, and Iran is essential to avoiding a wider war in the Middle East, renewed conflict in the Caucasus, and instability in Central Asia following the withdrawal of NATO forces from...

Europe’s unprecedented period of peace, social stability, and prosperity may be coming to an end. So, what comes next? The manner in which it resolves the eurocrisis will determine whether Europe transitions to a resurgent continent; muddles through; or enters an age...

To achieve its desired regional influence, Ankara has sought to settle disputes in its neighborhood, particularly the Iranian nuclear issue. But Turkey resists sanctions and has also realized that active diplomacy is not enough, so what might Ankara do?

Turkey’s estranged relations with Bashar Assad and its Syria policy once again demonstrate that Ankara’s foreign policy is not a battle between pro-Western and Islamic camps, but a delicate calibration among three historically-rooted conceptions of Turkish grand...

Turkish decision-makers find it difficult to believe that membership in NATO supports Turkey’s Western European identity anymore, leading Ankara to build relations with NATO on more pragmatic common interests. How long those binding common interests endure, however,...